Fallout 76’s design director is still defending its original absence of NPCs: ‘At the beginning, we wanted it all to be player-driven’

Fallout 76 has enjoyed a massive turnaround since its launch in 2018. What initially seemed like a folly, stripping away so much of what made Fallout such a long-lasting, beloved series, has, over the years, transformed into a quality sandbox prequel. The big improvements really began with the Wastelanders update, which reintroduced an essential part…

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Fallout’s original creators say that Fallout 3 and 4 aren’t quite what they would’ve done, but ‘sales say people love what they did’

It might be an unpopular thing to observe—please do not throw tomatoes at me—but whether you like it or not, Bethesda has spun a huge success out of the Fallout franchise, even while shuffling further and further away from its classic RPG roots. Ow, ouch! I asked you nicely to not throw tomatoes at me!…

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Relooted: Heist as Puzzle, Puzzle as Montage

Category: Games February 9, 2026 Relooted: Heist as Puzzle, Puzzle as Montage Ben Myres, Creative Director at Nyamakop We need more heist videogames! Don’t get me wrong, we already have Payday, we already have The Swindle, and of course we already have Grand Theft Auto V. But these games are all more “Heat” than “Ocean’s…

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‘Probably the worst build of my entire life’: This YouTuber spent two months building a gaming PC with titanium liquid cooling, galvanic corrosion be damned

YouTuber Jakkuh (previously a member of Linus Tech Tips) has spent two months designing a high-spec gaming PC kitted with an RTX 5090 and $1,300 worth of RAM to test out titanium liquid cooling, and the idea came from their love of cars. In their latest video, Jakkuh talks about looking at car exhausts on…

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The History of Samurai Shodown

Samurai Shodown was the very first pure weapon-based fighter from SNK, an innovative idea released during an era when the company had no shortage of flagship fighting games, with the likes of Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, and later The King of Fighters. Proving their fighting game catalog was not just a collection of formulaic…

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